My name is Carlo DeVito, and I am the author of East Coast Wineries: A Complete Guide from Maine to Virginia published by Rutgers University Press. This blog is dedicated to primarily east coast wines and wineries including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. It will also feature products and information from other regions.

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Roanoke Point Vineyard Is Up for Sale

Howard G. Goldberg wrote in the June 11, 2006 New York Times, "Bruce and Christiane Schneider are selling their Roanoke Point Vineyard and popular Potato Barn label but will continue to make small quantities of cabernet franc and syrah wine under their Schneider Vineyards brand."

Accoding to Goldberg, "Mr. Schneider said last week that he intended to devote more time to his wine-marketing consulting practice at RF/Binder Partners in New York City, where he is involved with Wines of Germany and Wines of Chile, both clients."

"For 12 years, Christiane and I have worked other full-time jobs in addition to running Schneider Vineyards," he said. "Our daughter is now 4, and we want to have more free time for our family."

The sale of the Potato Barn label and the 21-acre vineyard property, at 2248 Roanoke Avenue in Riverhead, where 14.5 acres are planted to red grapes, is being handled by Brown Harris Stevens in Cutchogue. The total asking price is $1.8 million.

The site contains a potato barn, which could become a winery, as have other such barns. The vineyard can yield about 2,500 cases of wine, with 500 more possible from added plantings, Mr. Schneider said.

"Although several East End producers farm cabernet franc, a relative of cabernet sauvignon, the Schneiders have been perhaps the most conspicuous champions of the wine. They have maintained that it has a more promising future locally than merlot, the region's signature red," Goldberg continued.

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About Me

Carlo DeVito is a long time wine lover, and author of books and magazine articles. He is the author of Wineries of the East Coast. He has traveled to wine regions in California, Canada, up and down the east coast, France, Spain and Chile. He has been a published executive for more than 20 years. He shepherded the wine book program of Wine Spectator as well as worked with Kevin Zraly, Oz Clarke, Matt Kramer, Tom Stevenson, Evan Dawson, Greg Moore, Howard Goldberg, and many other wine writers. He has also published Salvatore Calabrese, Jim Meehan, Clay Risen, and Paul Knorr.
Mr. DeVito is the inventor of the mini-kit which has sold more than 100,000,000 copies world wide. He has also publisher such writers as Stephen Hawking, E. O Wilson, Philip Caputo, Gilbert King, James McPherson, John and Mary Gribbin, Thomas Hoving, David Margolick, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., John Edgar Wideman, Stanley Crouch, Dan Rather, Dee Brown, Susie Bright, and Eleanor Clift.
He is also the owner of Hudson-Chatham Winery, co-founder of the Hudson Berkshire Beverage Trail, and president of the Hudson Valley Wine Country.
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